Something soft and clinging it was now; her lovely, rounded figure moving in its folds as a mermaid moves in the surf; her hair shaken cut and caught up again in all its delicious abandon; her cheeks, lips, throat, rose-color in the joy of her expectancy.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
It ought to have been ideal, this moving from scene to scene with the one girl I ever wanted for my own, since I was thirteen and worshipped a tank mermaid in green spangles.
"The Heather-Moon"
C. N. Williamson and A. M. Williamson
Annet declared for "The Little mermaid," which is perhaps the saddest of all; and this was the one she chose to-day, though half-penitently, because she felt pretty certain that it would make Linnet cry.
"Major Vigoureux"
A. T. Quiller-Couch